Wire fence tool



Sept. 26, 1933. T T STOBAUGH 1,928,273

WIRE FENCE TOOL Filed July 28, 1931 Patented Sept. 26, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT? OFFICE This invention relates to wire fence tools and has for an object the production of a tool which can be expeditiously manipulated for taking up slack wire and causing it to be retained taut without the employment of securing means. In other words, the wire is so twisted as to take up the slack and the rigidity of the wire is relied upon to cause it to retain the shape imparted to it by the manipulation of the tool.

It is a further object of this invention to produce a wire twister which can be readily dislodged from the twisted wire andit is a further I I having a seat or aperture for an end of a wire object of the invention to provide a wire twister in order that said wire may be applied to another sectional wire for the purpose of splicing the sections together, and it is a still further object of the invention to produce a wire tightener having auxiliary tools such as a hammer head and a spike claw.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawing'forming part of this specification wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 illustrates a view in perspective showing the wire twister applied to the wire of a fence in an initial position for taking up slack of the wire;

Figure 2 illustrates a perspective view of the wire twister having an end of a wire held in operative relation to a loop of another section of wire for splicing the two together;

Figure 3 illustrates a perspective view showing a further use of the invention; and

Figure 4 illustrates a perspective view of the wire tightener.

In the drawing 5 denotes the handle of the wire tightener terminating in a claw 6 which may a loop of a section to be spliced, as will presently appear.

The head has a bifurcated end, one furcation being short and the other furcation 11 being elongated, round in cross section tapered and curved. These furcations may be referred to hereafter as prongs, the one identified by the numeral 10 being a short prong and the one identified by the numeral 11 being the long prong.

It is seen from an inspection of the drawing that the outer surface of the short prong converges in the general direction toward the long prong and the distance between the surfaces of the prongs is less than the diameter of the head so that the head may be pulled out of the loop without encountering resistance.

The seat 12 between the prongs is intended to receive wire and hold it while the tool is being manipulated to twist the wire. The wire stretcher is capable of a plurality of uses and it is illustrated in the drawing to clearly show how it may be manipulated in association with a wire to produce the desired results.

One of the operations, illustrated in Figure 1, shows the tool being used with the long prong 11 and the head of-the tool engaging the wire. The manipulation of the tool when in this position results in twisting a wire to form a loop and the further twisting to make the wire taut as it should be to make it satisfactory.

Figure 2 illustrates the tool whereit is necessary to splice and tighten broken wire or where there are several inches or several feet as the case may be to be tightened or be taken out of the strand of wire. In this embodiment, the hole 9 in the tool is used, it being shown that the end of the wire 13 is lodged in the hole after the said wire has been inserted in a loop 14 of a wire 15 to be spliced. By rotating the head of the tool, the wire 13 will be pulled through the loop and wound on the head and thereafter the head of the The manipulation of the tool inthis way takes up the slack where the wire is very loose and where it is necessary to make a double knot.

The tool is useful for performing other operations but it is believed that the foregoing will serve to disclose the construction and utility of the invention to one skilled in the art and that the advantages will be apparent.

Obviously, this implement may be made right or left handed, that is to say, the short prong and long prong may have their positions transposed and reversed for convenience of one who is left handed.

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